By Edward Alden & Daniel Dombey Financial Times President George W Bush sought to repair the US’s battered reputation in Europe on Wednesday by promising action on Guantánamo Bay and hinting at trade concessions. But he also described European misgivings about US power as “absurd”…more

By Dan Bilefsky International Herald Tribune BRUSSELS As President George W. Bush headed to Europe to attend a summit meeting aimed at healing trans-Atlantic divisions, the president of the European Commission warned that global trade talks were dead unless the United States was willing to make more concessions…more

By Heather Timmons New York Times The board of the NYSE Group, operator of the New York Stock Exchange, agreed this weekend to make an offer to acquire Euronext, the pan-European exchange, a deal that would create the first trans-Atlantic market, with a combined market capitalization of more than $21 billion. The NYSE Group is…more